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Just a quick "content" question about Squad Leaders... Would it be worth having anything about how to actually manage squads via the in-game UI? For example, how to name and set up recruitment correctly for squads? Or for PLs, how to add new squads, invite to form a platoon, kick randoms, etc etc. It's stuff that's easy for a SL/PL to overlook in the tight spandexy heat of combat, but it helps everything run a bit smoother?

Also, regarding comms; think we should push for/highly encourage people to use their squad + number when calling for assistance or anything that requires us to locate them quickly, even more so than using names rather than saying "I" or "me".

Bleedan - I don't beleive so. Would be great to see something done with that though. Cooper especially seems to want the Roster to be done automatically.

Sorry I haven't contributed much latley - been lacking in enthusiasm for that sort of thing.

On another note, I'd like to say thank you to Esoteric and Znea for donating towards my hosting bill. Especially Znea, who covered over half of my 2-yearly bill with a single donation - and he hasn't even got an outfit invite yet! So yeah, with that much of my costs covered, I will make extra effort to ensure the RPS website receives whatever it needs. The hosting is done on Linux, so ASP etc isn't possible, but if anyone needs mysql databases, cron jobs, shell access, ftp access etc, it can be provided. In fact, Cooper, would you like access to the hosting control panel, if possible? (it can be done, but might be a pain depending on how I worked the ownership in the first place).

If no one else is doing anything with the API integration I will make a start but it will take me a while as work is busy atm. It will just be a list of current members with their ranks for now but can add online status and anything else the API holds at a later date. If anyone else wants to get involved just let me know.

Someone asked for text for squad management for Girofficers about 3 pages ago - first pass below, I don't have access to the website (and I'm probably not worth adding!) and I gather the doc's are now redundant.

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Practicalities

SL's have to do a limited amount of in and out of game housekeeping to keep things running smoothly.

The most important thing is that on first becoming squad leader, even if you are taking over a squad from someone else, is to check the "Recruitment Options" on the Social Tab -> Platoon/Squad management screen in game.

Un-tick Private squad, give it a meaningful name (at least put Alpha/Bravo etc in there!), tick 'Outfit Only', tick 'Recruitment Enabled', re-tick Private squad. You can also use this screen to promote your replacement, send out invites to your squad, and if not part of a platoon kick out any unwelcome people!

If operating under split comms

Make sure you are in the correct mumble channel yourself and that you have a RO in their channel if appropriate, if you are taking on a squad at the start of a session or just after a comms split it is worth doing a quick head count of your grunts to check that all made it.
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If someone fancies saving me some work, a collation of all the suggested taglines for below the "ROCK PLANET SHOTGUN" part of the logo (that end in "since 2873") would be welcome.

They're spread out across the thread on the logo, the thread on the YouTube graphics and I think this thread...

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Also:
Anyone with any PHP / HTML willing to look through the theme files for the theme we use and work out how to have the sidebar appear next to a sticky post rather than below it would be welcome.

The call to get_sidebar is in footer.php. Stickies get called in header.php.

If I move the call for get_sidebar to header.php it gets called next to the sticky but then posts appear below the sidebar...

I can send the relevant php files to anyone willing to have a look at this for me.

Ok, I've played with the header to finally get the YouTube graphic up there and properly appearing.

Can I get people to look at the front page in various browsers & window sizes to check it's working properly please?

Basically the header should appear in full if your monitor is wide enough for it to fit on, but be clipped without scrollbars if the monitor / window is smaller. This maintains the original resolution of the image rather than dynamically re-sizing it as the default CSS does and allows as many 'profiles' to appear as the user has window width.

However I thnk this will screw with anyone viewing with smartphones and the like. An idea of how bad it is on those devices would be good. May have to load an alternate image for those...